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>Rust would have been used for implementing the web technologies, not by end users.

It wouldn't. Another reason for Firefox OS's failure was their insistence of doing everything in Javascript. Do not bet against Javascript mentality. They quite literally wants to write most part of OS in JS.

A few developer actually blogged about this once Mozilla announced they will discontinue the development of Firefox OS.



Many layers were in C++.

Most of the JS code was the applications (including the homescreen).




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